[16035] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: oh, for goodness' sake.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay R. Ashworth)
Wed Apr 8 20:35:11 1998
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1998 20:24:02 -0400
From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199804081535.IAA26346@baygate.bayarea.net>; from Dave Crocker <dcrocker@brandenburg.com> on Wed, Apr 08, 1998 at 08:30:07AM -0700
On Wed, Apr 08, 1998 at 08:30:07AM -0700, Dave Crocker wrote:
> At 11:44 PM 4/7/98 -0700, Michael Dillon wrote:
> >services (not the web server) to another TLD. Perhaps it should be
> >whois.ripe.int? Since the IPv6 equivalent of in-addr.arpa lives in .INT
> >this makes sense to me.
>
> I think that placing such critical domain references under .INT is a
> reasonable idea.
>
> However, RIPE isn't a treaty organization and the rules for new .INT names
> is pretty specific. And IANA is rather careful about following the rules.
>
> Jon Postel's directive is that any proposal needs to have very precise
> rules, so the first step in getting groups like RIPE authorized under .INT
> is to write a set of rules that will mechanically determine who is authorized.
>
> Perhaps a place to start is by qualifying any organization that has
> administrative or operations responsibilities directly assigned by IANA.
Actually, IMAO, the proper place to start is by stringing up whomeever
thought it would be a good idea to make .NET commercial by the balls,
and using it for what it was designed for.
Cheers,
-- jra
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